F17 video annoyances, old hardware

Sat Mar 31 16:20:15 UTC 2012

On 2012/03/31 09:02 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 17:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>>  On 2012/03/30 14:43 (GMT-0700) stan composed:

>>  >  Nv should be dropped from the repositories for F17.

>>  Only when we know nouveau works for all antique NVidia chip classes.

> Why? If it can't do EXA on old chips and the server has no XAA support
> any more, it's no use. You're better off with working vesa than broken
> nv.

Ever tried to get VESA to produce 2048x1152, 1366x768, 1680x1050, 1600x900 or 
1920x1080? Have you tried to buy a 4:3 display lately? Do all your CRTs work 
as well now as they did when new if at all? Are you familiar with what 
1024x768 and 1280x1024 look like on a 1920x1080 display?
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